Wire-twister



' (No, Model.)

J. S. LOGKE.

WIRE TWISTER.

No. 424,117. Patented Mar. 25, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH S. LOOKE, OF SPARTANBURG, ASSIGNOR TO SAMUEL PERRY GLUNT, OF UNION CITY, INDIANA.

WI RE-TWISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,117, dated March 25, 1890.

Application filed May 20, 1889. Renewed January 30, 1890- Serial No. 338,591. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. LOCKE, of Spartanburg, in the county of Randolph and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Wire-Twister, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient device for twisting or wrenching the Wires of combined Wire and picket fences; and the invention consists in the novel construction and combination hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a section of a combined wire and picket fence and one of my improved twisting devices, the latter being shown with the twister-bar in posit-ion to receive the fence-wires; and Fig. 2 is a similar View, the twist-er being shown in operative position for twisting the wires.

The lever or handle-bar A of the twister is formed of the two side members a a, united at their ends and spaced thereat by spacingpieces a. a, forming a longitudinal opening a? between the sides at the center. In the opening a the twisting-bar B is pivoted at Z) between the sides a a in such a manner that it may be swung to bring the slot 1) of said twisting-bar for receiving the fence-wires parallel or approximately so with the handlebar A and lie wholly beyond the side edge of said bar, as in Fig. 1. The twister-bar B is pivoted to the handle-barA ata point on the former between the entrance to the slot 17 and the heel of said slot at one side thereof, the object of which is that after the twister has been placed on the fence-wires, as in Fig. 1, when the handle-bar is swung to the position in which itis shownin Fig. 2, its edge a forces the Wires to the heel of the slot 6 without friction, as owing to the peculiar pivotal connection of the twister-bar the handle-bar when turned presses on the wires in a straight direction toward the heel of the slotwithout causing the wires to bear against the walls of said slot.

In twisters of this character, Where the twister-bar is pivoted to the handle-bar in the rear of the slot as the handle-bar is turned, it causes the wires to bear hard against the walls of the slot, causing undue friction, which is avoided in the construction above described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combinatiomwith the handle-bar, of the twister-bar formed with an open slot and pit 'oted to the handle-bar at a point on the twister-bar intermediate the ends of the slot at one side thereof, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with the handle -bar, formed of two side members spaced and united at their ends forming a longitudinal opening between said members, of the twister-bar formed with an open slot and pivoted in the opening of the handle-bar at a point on the twister -bar intermediate the open end and heel thereof at one side, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JOSEPH S. LOCKE.

'Witnesses:

J NO. W. HILL, JNo. W. TAYLOR. 

